President Donald Trump: Meet the New First Family

Donald Trump

Donald Trump was born on June 14, 1946, in Queens, New York. He was one of five children of Mary and Frederick Trump, and attended Fordham University for two years before making his way to the Wharton School of Finance and Commerce at UPenn, where he graduated from in 1968 with a Bachelor of Science in Economics. In the early 1970s, Trump became involved in building projects in Manhattan. He opened the Grant Hyatt in 1980, and in 2004, he began starring in The Apprentice. In 2015, Trump announced his candidacy for president of the United States-- he officially became the Republican candidate for president on July 19, 2016. Donald Trump has been involved in a number of business endeavors over the course of his professional career, and was put in charge of his father’s real estate firm in the early 1970s. Between 1996 and 2015, he owned the Miss USA pageants, and in 2016, he was named by Forbes as the 342nd wealthiest person in the world. (Getty)